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With commercial robots looking like becoming an important part of our future, we would like to see your very own creative robot designs. We would love to see your photos, artwork and sketches with a brief summary of your robot’s proposed characteristics and behavioural traits. Get creative and share your innovation skills with us, and we will feature the most original designs on our website.

Emovere is a swarm of a dozen small autonomous robots which respond to the presence of people. Originally conceived to stalk people as an investigation into the more sinister aspects of robots as portrayed in classic science fiction tropes. They unexpectedly turned out to be curious and playful little creatures who just wanted to dance and play.

As the name says The Mushbot sniffs, seeking and reaps mushrooms in the fields and if there is a drought in the region, The amazing Mushbot sprays water in manure and waiting for harvest. By Régis Schwert

He's a singing Robot,his underground hit 'Christmas Robot' will be more mainstream this year as we have convinced Mike Stock to release it.Our Robot was designed by us as a vehicle to achieve a Christmas No 1,because as ourselves we'd have no chance.

A few years back, I designed this Unmanned-All-terrain-Giraffe for an article in the french equivalent of the uncyclopedia. Still today, it is widely seen as a great avant-garde project which makes the drones look like a thing from the past. I am still very proud of my design, but could not be bothered translating in english the key element of my patent. I apologise for my french.

The crane was made by myself and a fellow student for a technical assignment on the Product Design BSc degree, at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, earlier this year. We had to move six matchboxes (representing shipping containers) from one zone to another, against the clock. The crane utilises the popular Arduino 'brain' (as used by five year olds to 95 year olds!) with servo motors for accurate control on this small scale. We were the only pair who managed to lift two matchboxes at the same time, happy days!

I created Greenspan for a comedy I made called Fine Fellows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBul2lDLCc4

Greenspan is a ‘Swiss Army Knife’ robot butler, instantly doing away with the need for fussy, multiple gadgets in the home; his inventor is Dr Leopold Sunshine. At present Greenspan is powered by the ever-dependable fuel source that is Diesel; but in light of recent environmental concerns future Greenspan models will be powered by the more environmentally friendly 4 Star ‘unleaded’ petrol. ‘He’ (though technically Greenspan can voice any gender, simply by removing his bowtie, unscrewing the panel labelled ‘WARNING: HAZARDOUS: DO NOT REMOVE’ and conducting some simple rewiring, soldering and some basic coding and language input; he’s as intuitive to operate as a microwave) been created with an eye to capturing the robot ‘home help’ market. Leopold is adamant Greenspan’s will ultimately be as common a sight in the home as Dyson’s (once he’s ironed out minor glitches like asking Greenspan to make a Gin and Tonic, only for Greenspan to go and set fire to the living room curtains). Though there have been a few serious injuries (or ambulance chasers) in relation to GREENSPAN 2.0 ‘incidents’, it clearly states in the manual that GREENSPAN 2.0 is at the ‘beta’ stage of development and if his firmware is not kept up-to-date the manufacturer cannot be held responsible (the fact that GREENSPAN has 6 firmware updates a day is irrelevant and will not hold up in court). Greenspan’s ‘out of the tinfoil’ voice is 'John Le Mesurier'; this, coupled with Greenspan’s slightly wistful, gazing out the window demeanour and impeccable manners (often greeting his ‘oversights’ with his signature “I do apologise ducky …”) mean most owners forgive their Greenspan any transgressions, permanent scaring, or claims on the home insurance he may have caused them to make, and gradually, over time, begin to view him as an eccentric friend and confidant (only one they don’t like to have around children, animals, the elderly, or barbeques).

The product of six years of intensive research and collaboration with my son we feel that the DRD Mk VIII is the closest mankind has yet got to replicating human life mechanically. It's also quite good at chess.